Month: March 2013

Book Review: The Myths of Innovation

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berkun-myths-210x315Back in August, I had the privilege of hearing Scott Berkun speak. If you don’t know who he is, you should. He regularly shares nuggets of wisdom that reveal a man that not only seeks to learn from research and experience, but can also merge the two into solid advice.

When I saw him speak at the DC User Experience Professionals Association meeting, he was talking about his book Mindfire. He was giving out free copies to those that participated in the presentation/discussion. When I “earned” my book, I traded for The Myths of Innovation. An earlier book of his, it is one that gets to the root of why I listen to Scott Berkun.

Enough prelude, let’s talk about the book.

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AUDC13: netFORUM Enterprise Roadmap

I’m happy and sad about this session. I LOVE having the Roadmap session starting a conference off on the right foot. On the other hand, not a big fan of a conference starting on a Sunday. Blows a whole weekend and there are some people to whom taking Sunday as a day of rest/worship is still important.

The speakers are Don Prodehl (VP Research & Development) Darryl Hopkins (Director R&D/ Product Manager), and Craig Dellorso (Chief Customer Officer).

Notes:

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Deeper Into Associations, Pie at AUDC

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This week, or at least for half of the week, I am at the Avectra User and Developer Conference (AUDC) in Orlando this year. Avectra is the platform that AIIM chose as our core Association Management Software (AMS) platform. As the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of AIIM, I pretty much need to make Avectra my priority. Everything works off of it.

I have no idea how I’ll share my experience between twitter and here at the Word. This is my first time so I’m not sure how the muse will possess me. Regardless of the outcome, I wanted to let everyone understand what I’m doing.

In case I decide to publish raw notes, I wanted to share this disclaimer for those that are unfamiliar with my style. Enjoy.

All information in this post was gathered from the presenters and presentation. It does not reflect my opinion unless clearly indicated (Italics in parenthesis). Any errors are most likely from my misunderstanding a statement or imperfectly recording the information. Updates to correct information are reflected in red, but will not be otherwise indicated.

All statements about the future of Avectra products and strategy are subject to change at any time due to a large variety of factors.